466 FLORA OF MADRAS. \_Terminalia. 



S. Deccarj, in the deciduous forests of Cuddapah and 

 Bellaiy ; W. Ghats, in deciduous forests from S. Canara 

 to Travancore, common up to 2,000 ft. 



A large deciduous tree with characteristic fruit. Bark 

 dark brown, cracked ; wood pale brown, smooth, very hard, 

 a useful building wood. Yern. Tel. Neeineeri ; Tarn. Pe- 

 karakai, Yem-maruthu ; Mai. Pillai maruthu. 



2. Anogeissus, Wall. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate or subopposite, petioled, 

 entire. Flowers in dense globose heads on short axillary peduncles 

 or in short cymes; bracts on the peduncles or at the cyme branches 

 often leafy; bracteoles minute. Calyx-tube slender above the 

 ovary ; limb cup-shaped with 5 lobes. Petals 0. Stamens 10, 

 in 2 series; anthers small. Ovary inferior, 1-celled; ovules 2, 

 pendulous ; style subulate. Fruits packed in dense heads, com- 

 pressed, 2- winged, ending in the persistent calyx- tube and some- 

 times limb. Seed 1 ; cotyledons convolute. 



Leaves elliptic or suborbicular, up to 3 in. long, 2-2*5 in. broad, obtuse 

 at apex, rounded or sometimes cordate at base ; flower-heads usually 

 in cymes ; calyx-tube rather short, about '1 in. long, lobes reflexed ; 



fruit broadly winged, the wings rounded, entire 1 . latifolia. 



Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, up to 2'5 in. long, 1 in. broad, acute at apex, 

 narrowed at base; flower-heads usually solitary on bracteate peduncles j 

 calyx-tube long and slender, about '25 in., lobes spreading; fruit 

 fairly broadly winged with dentate wings 2. acuminata. 



1. ANOGEISSUS LATIFOLIA, Wall. ; F. B. I. ii. 450 ; Bedd. Fl. 



t. 15. Conocarpus latifolia, DC.; W. & A. 316; Wt. Ic. 



t. 994. 



N". Circars, Deccan and Carnatic to S. Travancore, in dry 

 deciduous forests and up to 4,000 ft. 



A large deciduous tree, conspicuous by its smooth grey 

 bark and by the leaves turning red before falling. Wood 

 grey, hard, with a small purplish heartwood, strong and 

 tough and useful for agricultural implements, carts, build- 

 ing and fuel. It gives a gum and the leaves are used in 

 tanning. Yern. Hind. Bakli; Ur. Dohu; Tel. Chiriman ; 

 Tarn. Yellay naga ; Mai. Maru kanchiram. 



var. villosa, C. B. Clarke. Leaves densely rusty-villous. 

 S. Deccan, in Mysore and N". Xilgiris. 



